The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.

Town not known for anything except its strange name.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

The remains of a historic plantation nestled in between a parking lot and the rental car return at Reagan National Airport.

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

A genuine Tudor manor transported piece by piece from England.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.